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22·14 hours ago“That thing that’s already over a decade old and already much larger than the G7 in terms of population, landmass, natural resources, and industrial production… Never going to happen.”
Your impression of India’s, China’s, and Russia’s relationships with each other is years behind.
I don’t know, but this Wikipedia table has population and GDP-PPP columns, so it’s easy to do the math. Note though, that Vietnam is in the subsequent table, because the page hasn’t been updated it yet.
They speak another language, have their own cultural heritage.
The Wikipedia page for Taiwan alone would prove this to be utterly false[1]. How can you speak with such authority when you know you’re talking out your ass?
The rest of you what you wrote isn’t much better. It’s just the standard anti-China & anti-communist Western propaganda talking points.
What do you think this is, Reddit?
Excepting the tiny minority of indigenous Formosans, whom the fascist KMT overran them when it retreated from the mainland… ↩︎
You made a miner error.
🤷 I have absolutely no doubt that Iran has had mines prepared for blockading the strait for decades, and I don’t think bluffing is Iran’s usual M.O., so I think this is likely regardless of what anonymous US sources say.
The CIA report (PDF): https://web.archive.org/web/20250703012001/https://www.cia.gov/static/Tradecraft-Review-2016-ICA-on-Election-Interference-062625.pdf
The thing is, it’s been known for at least 1½ years that the CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016.
Perhaps. Ultimately they’re heads of the same USAGM hydra.
1·3 days agoI enjoyed A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail. They stopped producing new episodes, though.
VOA is yet another USAGM outlet.
Technology giants Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, and IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab were named as “central to Israel’s surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction.”
First as tragedy, then as… also tragedy. IBM and the Holocaust
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the beginning of the Third Reich through to the last day of the regime, at the end of World War II when the US and Germany were at war with each other.
Published in 2001, with numerous subsequent expanded editions, Black outlined the key role of IBM’s technology in the Holocaust genocide committed by the German Nazi regime, by facilitating the regime’s generation and tabulation of punched cards for national census data, military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity.
modeled after “anti-disinformation” rules that were crafted by the NATOid security racket
Indeed. Previously:
The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach [real media literacy] to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.
This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.
The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”
Also previously.
Don’t those same people often accuse hexbear of brigading?
5·4 days agoI’m not sure that works, because AFAIK there currently are no such regulations, and this bill was preemptive of any future ones. In any case, what got blocked in the Senate was a ban of any future such regulations.
Leonid Ivanovich Pasechnik […] is a Russian politician who has served as head of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) since 2017. He holds the position in acting capacity ever since the Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in 2022. Pasechnik had previously held office as the LPR’s Minister of State Security from 2014 to 2018.
Prior to his political career, Pasechnik served in the Security Service of Ukraine until the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, which he supported.
Jonathan Swift offered A Modest Proposal.
I can strongly say that, too, because BRICS is explicitly not trying to create a global reserve currency to replace the USD.
If you don’t understand what BRICS is, then maybe don’t make predictions about it.